Hector: 430 books

BnF collection ebooks - "C'en est fait, je n'irai pas à Paris ! Il faut renoncer à tous nos beaux projets, à tous nos rêves. Les châteaux en Espagne que, pendant nos deux années de rhétorique et de philosophie, nous avons bâtis,en nous promenant dans la cour du collège de Nancy, se sont...

Extrait : "Ni la grosse élégance, ni la sérieuse richesse des rues qui avoisinent le parc Monceaux ne se sont étendues à l'avenue de Villiers. Avec les voies qui rayonnent vers elle, cette avenue forme un quartier bien à part [...] : les gloires récentes, les arrivés de la ville, peintres, sculpteurs,...

"Elegant and ingenious, it delivers exactly what it promises — a spy story in the grand tradition" - Daily Mail Drugs are everywhere. Some think they should be legal. Three world leaders want to make it happen. Until one of them is assassinated. Disgraced MI6 spymaster...

CHRISTMAS WITH THE BILLIONAIRE Despite her family’s billions, Samira Ansah is climbing the corporate ladder on her own. She needs to buy a lucrative property owned by bestselling author Emerson Lance Miller. The sexy recluse isn’t selling, but when he assumes she’s his new assistant,...

Fifteen-year old Spencer loves professional wrestling. It’s the reason why he, along with his older brother Billy, started their very own wrestling promotion in their Dallas apartment complex. The fact it puts Spencer closer to Tori, Billy’s girlfriend and the only girl either boy knows who can...

Edinburgh 1828 - a tale of two cities, the New Town, home to the elegant, the Old Town, home to the homeless and yet between them, home to the most famous school of medicine in the world. However that world could not yet boast any of those soothing securities that we take for granted today - anaesthesia,...

This bookrecommends balance between cooperation and competition in intercultural/international relations, with more emphasis on the former. To make this possible, it describes a paradigm shift and demonstrates why it is logical and how it can be attained—thus going beyond traditional legal and moral...

Arguably two of the finest fighters built during the course of World War II, the Me 262 and P-51 Mustang heralded new dawns in aircraft performance. Making its operational debut in the summer of 1944, and powered by the Jumo 004 jet engine, the Me 262 outclassed Allied planes in terms of speed and...

Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II. The long-nosed 'Dora 9', designed by Kurt Tank, first appeared in the skies over the Western and Eastern Fronts in the...

Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting...

By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements. However, starting in October they faced thesuperb Kawanishi N1K1/2 Shiden/Shiden-Kai,...

Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the American West. On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two...

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian government made a special appeal to Britain for Spitfires. A year later the Spitfire VC-equipped No 1 Fighter Wing, RAAF, faced the battle-hardened...

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.